Modding Discussion Few questions to do with modding

I'd like to keep this short, but here are my main questions.
See I'm honestly quite interested in modding this game, rather for fun than anything else, so while roaming, I found some tutorials on modding, and there's something I wanted to know, when it comes to making a "modinfo" file, what would the current "version" be? since enraged koala is very outdated, right now, unedited my "modinfo" says

{
"name" : "your_mod_name",
"version" : "Beta v. Enraged Koala",
"path" : ".",
"dependencies" : [],
"metadata" : {
"author" : "Your_name",
"version" : "your_mod_version_number",
"description" : "your_mod_description"
}
}


What should the version be changed to right now? would changing it to "1.0.3" be correct?


The second question I have for now is, would you say there'd be a lot of coding experience needed for the mods, and if so, what language should I learn the basics of for this?

Thank you.

 

Oh thank you for the 1.0 tutorial linked, I thought the ones I looked at seemed outdated.


I can see this book also gives an answer to my second question + others, thanks alot!

 

My mods currently orbit between Cheerful and Glad Giraffe with the 1.0.3 suffix. As long as people see "Giraffe" and usually the release version, they can figure it out.

(I never liked remembering the mood of the Giraffe every version... )